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Sweden’s first-ever female prime minister, Magdalena Andersson has dramatically resigned less than 12 hours after being installed over suffering a budget defeat in parliament and then losing her coalition partner in a two-party minority government.   Ms. Andersson said a decision by the Green Party to quit the two-party coalition had forced her to resign but added that she had told the parliamentary speaker she hoped to be appointed prime minister again as the head of a single-party government.   The Green Party said it would leave the government after the coalition’s budget bill was rejected by parliament.   “For me, it is about respect, but I also do not want to lead a government where there may be grounds to question its legitimacy,” Ms Andersson told a news conference.   She added: “A coalition government should resign if a party chooses to leave the government. Despite the fact that the parliamentary situation is unchanged, it needs to be ...

The manhunt for a former Maryland police officer accused of abducting his two daughters ended Thursday, Nov. 18, with him, a woman and two children fatally shot in an apparent murder-suicide, police said.   Former Baltimore County police officers Robert Vicosa, 41, suspended Baltimore County police Sgt. Tia Bynum, 35, and two young children believed to be Vicosa's daughters were found with gunshot wounds in an SUV in Smithsburg, Maryland, after a police pursuit, Maryland State Police confirmed late Thursday, Nov. 18.     Vicosa was accused of abducting his daughters at gunpoint Monday, Nov 15, from the home of his estranged wife in Pennsylvania's Windsor Township, as well as assaulting the wife and stealing her vehicle, police in that state had said.   About 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, Pennsylvania State Police attempted to stop a Ford Edge that matched the description of a vehicle used in multiple crimes, but the driver continued across the Maryland st...

Zainab Aliyu Kila, the Nigerian lady framed by a drug cartel while traveling for lesser Hajj in Saudi Arabia in 2018, has joined the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.   Recall that on December 26, 2018, Miss Aliyu, then a student at Maitama Sule University, Kano, was arrested by Saudi authorities for allegedly traveling with a luggage containing unlawful substances believed to be tramadol. Zainab had traveled through the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, MAKIA, for Lesser Hajj with her mother, Maryam, and sister, Hajara. Shortly after she arrived at the Jeddah Airport, the Saudi Authorities intercepted a bag containing banned substances and traced it to Zainab and she was arrested in her hotel room.     She was charged and detained for four months by the Saudi Arabian anti-drug trafficking agency over alleged drug trafficking charges.   After several appeals by her parents, media, and civil society organization, authori...

American rapper,  Young Dolph has been shot and killed at the age of 36.    Three independent law enforcement sources confirmed to FOX13 and TMZ that rapper Young Dolph was shot and killed in Memphis Wednesday afternoon, November 17.    Maurice Hill, the owner of the shop where the shooting happened, Makeda’s Butter Cookies, told FOX13 his employees said Young Dolph, 36, walked into the store to buy cookies. Someone then drove up and then shot and killed him around 1 p.m. on Wednesday at the bakery in South Memphis.   Young Dolph’s Lamborghini sat in the parking lot of the bakery when FOX13 crews arrived.   The rapper has been targeted in the past. Back in 2017, he was struck by multiple bullets outside a shoe store in Hollywood, getting hit in the arms and buttocks, requiring surgery.   Earlier that same year, Dolph's SUV was shot over 100 times while he was in Charlotte, NC in a shooting that saw an arrest warra...

Cameroon football star, Samuel Eto’o has officially filed his candidacy for the presidency of the country’s football federation, promising he would be the “next president despite the cheating”. On Wednesday, November 17, Eto’o, a four-time African footballer of the year, was accompanied by a crowd of supporters as he submitted his bid at the Cameroonian federation’s headquarters in Yaounde. “I urge the opposite camp to be careful because we have accepted lots of things,” Eto’o told reporters. The 40-year-old ex-Barcelona and Inter Milan striker said the current leadership had offered him a position as vice-president, which he rejected. “I will be the next president of the federation despite all the cheating,” he declared. Eto’o announced his intention to run for FA president in September. The Court of Arbitration for Sport in January annulled the 2018 elections won by Seidou Mbombo Njoya. New elections are scheduled for December, a month before Cameroon hosts the Af...

More than 125 fans have sued rapper Travis Scott for $750 million over the deadly Astroworld Festival incident that left 10 dead and hundreds injured earlier this month.   The lawsuit, filed by Houston Attorney Tony Buzbee,  who had previously been representing at least 35 victims from the concert - accuses Scott and festival organizers of 'gross negligence' for the chaos at Astroworld on November 5.     The suit also names Live Nation, Epic Records Drake, and Apple as defendants for their involvement in organizing the festival, and Buzbee plans to file another lawsuit with 100 more plaintiffs in the coming days.      'No amount of money will ever make these Plaintiffs whole; no amount of money can restore human life,' Buzbee said in the lawsuit.    'But, the damages sought in this case attempts to fix, help, or make up for the harms and losses suffered by these Plaintiffs -- nothing m...

Football legend, David Beckham is facing huge pressure to reverse his decision to be the ‘face’ of the Qatar World Cup.   Recall Amnesty International has repeatedly accused the Qatar government of treating migrant workers poorly in the country.  Amnesty’s 48-page report presents a bleak picture of what immigrant workers face, with Qatari promises of the abolition of the hated kafala system which restricted migrant workers from leaving the country or changing jobs without their employer’s permission not in evidence.    Senior sources at Unicef, a key part of his charity work for 15 years, are ‘dismayed’ by Beckham signing a multi-million-pound deal with the Qataris.   Amnesty said he should use his position to ‘keep the world’s focus on the human rights issues surrounding the matches’ at next year’s World Cup.   The organisation said: ‘David Beckham has a unique worldwide profile which offers wide opportunities to highlight human rig...